Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called “HFY” or “Humanity Fuck Yeah” which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill stupid evil caricature aliens 1000:1. Once in a while there’s a story where an alien race does a massacre to humans which gives the humans an excuse to gloriously commit righteous genocide

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  • juniper [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I still have to discuss with him why we aren’t clicking that really cool looking thumbnail

    I’m not a parent but I think this is probably a good thing regardless. It’s the same lesson that can be used to dissuade buying junk food at the grocery store because it’s colorful and has a Disney character on it. I know it’s annoying because it will take years to actually get through to a kid on this but it’s worth it for encouraging critical thinking/suspicion.